[hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions

[Josh Luthman]

Not sure about 1 and 2.

3 - When you issue bb host "drop host files" you drop the historical data of
the host:files.  As it is reappearing it shows that it is still being
updated, via bb-hosts (or since it is files) from a client.  The files test
is done by the client and reported to the Hobbit server.

Josh

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics,
consultant) <Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com> wrote:

>  Hi Everyone, I'm relatively new to Hobbit.  I like it a lot, but I do
> have a few random questions.  I've been reading the documentation a lot and
> haven't found the answers, so I hope the answers don't turn out to be "see
> the man page". :)
>
> I have to say I really like the documentation to Hobbit.  At first glance
> it seems a bit short, but on reading it I find that it manages to be packed
> with information which is written in a nice concise, efficient, jargon-free,
> and human-readable way.  The comments in the config files are also
> excellent, although sometimes the information in there is slightly different
> from what's in the documentation page for that file - sometimes there's info
> in one place that isn't in the other.  I wish more documentation in the IT
> field were written like this.  My only suggestion is that it would be
> helpful for us new folks to have some kind of general overview that
> describes (or better yet, shows in a flowchart) how data flows between
> client, server, the various tests, the web server, how the various config
> files fit in, and so on.  The information is currently in there but it takes
> a good bit of reading and experimenting before you really start to "get it".
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I this is in the comments:
>
>
> #             Defaults: MEMPHYS warnlevel=100 paniclevel=101 (i.e. it will
> never go red)
> #                       MEMSWAP warnlevel=50 paniclevel=80
> #                       MEMACT  warnlevel=90 paniclevel=97
> #  Note: The words "PHYS", "ACT" and "SWAP" are also recognized.
> And then later on, there is this bit:
>
> # These are the built-in defaults.
> # SWAP    20 40
> # MEMSWAP 50 80
>
> Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP?  If not, why is it listed
> twice in the defaults?  If so, what is the difference?
>
>
> 2) In the documentation page for hobbit-clients.cfg, there is this
> statement:
>
> "CLASS=classname  - Rule match by the client class-name. You specify the
> class-name for a host when starting the client through the "--class=NAME"
> option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is specified, the host by
> default goes into a class named by the operating system."
>
> Unfortunately I can't find any details about what the default names of the
> "classes named by the operating system" are, so I don't know which strings
> to put after "CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file.  Is there a list
> somewhere?
>
>
> 3) There are a couple columns in the default configuration that I don't
> want, like "files".  On the page in question, the status icon for every
> system is "clear" (white).  I want to use the "drop" option to the bb
> command to do this.  I issued this command for every host on the page in
> question:
>
> bb localhost "drop <hostname> files"
>
> That works for a minute or two.  On the next page refresh, almost all of
> the hosts have the column empty (just a dash), but a few of them are back to
> "clear" already.  After one or two refreshes, all the systems are back at
> clear status.  How can I get hobbit to drop the column forever, permanently,
> completely, without leaving old history files around and stuff?
>
> Thanks for any tips!
>
>
> ---
> Doug Linder
> UNIX Systems Administrator
>    CompuCom Systems, Inc.
>
> SABIC Innovative Plastics
> T: 413 448 7563
> D: *838 7563
> E: doug.linder at sabic-ip.com <doug.linderrdoug.linder at sabic-ip.com>
>
>
>



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